Whether you want to cool down in the summer, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in cars is now an almost necessary feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Toyota Avalon isn’t cold anymore? This is exactly the question we will try to answer on this page. First, we’ll look at the various complications that can prevent the air conditioning in your Toyota Avalon from cooling down, and finally, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to fix this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Toyota Avalon NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guidebook with the symptoms that can explain that the air conditioning of your Toyota Avalon is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Toyota Avalon air con
One of the fairly known indicators that can notify you to the fact that your air conditioning is not working is if you have a musty or damp smell inside your motor vehicle, and yes, a bad smell can be a warning of a defective air conditioning system, it can be lasting or just present when you turn on your air conditioning. To locate a solution to this failure, we recommend you to go through our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Toyota Avalon.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Toyota Avalon
One of the other symptoms that can notify you to a not working air conditioner is that you experience a strange noise is coming on when you turn on your air conditioner (feel free to approach the vents to verify for any dubious noise). This noise could reveal a defective air conditioning clutch or a defective customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Quite hard to notice without advanced mechanical expertise, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can result in your air conditioning no longer generating cold. There are several possible causes to do this loss of pressure, and these are listed below:
- Leakage of refrigerant gases
- nonfunctioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Toyota Avalon
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Toyota Avalon is no longer cold just because your air conditioning system is no longer working. Here are the different origins of an air conditioning system that no longer functions:
- Compressor pulley HS: The compressor will be out of power and the circuit will be stopped.
- Overpressure concern: This will trigger the device to trip.
- Defective sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I FIX THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Toyota Avalon THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to see the most important triggers of a Toyota Avalon air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to show you the different solutions available to you . To begin with, you should know that an air conditioning system is complex, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, assuming that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. Nevertheless, here are the most important possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before performing any major repair, clean the air conditioning of your Toyota Avalon, don’t hesitate to check out our dedicated article on this subject.
If this is not enough, bleed and refill the coolant, which should cost you around 100aine euros.
Changing the air conditioning clutch: you will need to spend around 150 euros for parts and around 100 euros more for labour.
Searching for and repairing an air conditioning leak: based on the position of the leak it will cost you more or less, count on average 150/200 euros, counting the air conditioning refill.
Replacement of an air conditioning condenser: you will need to count about 200 euros.
Changing the air conditioning gas compressor on Toyota Avalon costs about 500 euros with labor.
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